Acura drivers admit that the ARX-06 lacked the pack and the top speed to “attack” the frontrunners in Saturday’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebring 12 Hours.

Acura put on a lacklustre performance in ൩the second round of the IMSA SportsCar C🐟hampionship, with its two Meyer Shank-entered factory cars never really looking like serious contenders for victory.

Some late progress saw the HRC-engineered #93 LMDh driven b🏅y Nick Yelloly, Renger van der Zande and Alex Palou finish third, five seconds down on the wiꦜnning Porsche 963.

The sister #60 en𝓀try took the chequered flag five laps down in 10th after Tom Blomqvist was involved in a pitlane collision with the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 ඣof Phillip Eng.

These results were a far cry from its previous showing at Sebring just 12 months ago, when it won the race outright with its pꦿrevious tea🌄m partner Wayne Taylor Racing.

Given the circumst🔜ances,🐲 van der Zande said even third-place felt like victory to the Acura crew, but conceded that the ARX-06 lacked the speed to take the fight to Porsche.

"I don't want to say it feels like a victory, but it feels like a viꦗctory,” the Dutch driver said.

“It was one of those races where we didn't have the pace or the power �♑�to really attack at all. But I think defensively we made it to the podium.

“The Meyer Shank and Acura guys all together did an amazing job on s♚trategy and that's why we are on the podium. We can be very proud of that and very excited to build from here."

IndyCar star Palou, who joined full-season drivers Yelloly and Renger van der Zande at S🍷ebring, hailed Acura for pulling off a podium despite “struggling a lot on pace” during𓆉 the race.

"Great day! I'm super happy. It's not💃 a win, but number three is still good!,” he said.

“It's my first podium with the Acura MSR team, anꦆd the first podium for me in GTP. It's a good result for the #93. We were looking good in Daytona, but we got unlucky there.

“We had some struggles here as well throughout the day, at some p𓆏oint we were struggling a lot on pace, but everybody at HRC and MSR did a great job working on the car and making sure we were there at the end to fight for the podium.

“I think it's a great result, it feels like a win. I'll be for sure cheering for these guys 🉐while I'm doing my IndyCar races, and I can't wait for the next endurance race."

Colin Braun enjoyed a brief stint at the front in the #60 Acura just after the halfway point of the race, but he was soon overtaken by the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac of Frederik Vesti. He then quickly dropped outside of podium positionꦺs.

More 𝓀drama struck the #60 Acura at the end of hour nine when Braun’s teammate Blomqvist made contact with Eng’s BMW in a crowded pitlane as they exited their respective pit boxes.

The Acura suffered heavy damage to its bodywork and suspension and was later handed a drive-t𝓀hrough penalty for a pitlane violation🔜, leaving it several laps off the lead.

Expl𒆙aining the collision from his point of view, Blomqvist said: “We had issues getting out of pit lane and one car wasn't properly in the fast lane and I had to maneuver around anoth𒉰er car and it was just too tight and I broke the front left [suspension].

“I'm obඣviously very disappointed for the guys and I think we could have had both car꧙s fighting for third and fourth.

"I've never had a good result here and unfor♈tunately this year was the same.”